My former employer is using AI to compensate for both a lack of employees to do a particular job as well as not having enough time to do that job.
The one employee the company had left for this job was asked to add my duties to his own. That would have left the company free to reduce my hours while they migrated my work to a different platform. He refused and quit. So, they recalled me to the office and added HIS duties to mine.
They fully expected me to us AI tools on the new platform to compensate for lack of time to do both jobs, while expecting me to train another person to take over the duties I was originally hired for.
They sought to replace me with another designer when they discovered that my skills for which I was hired, are not what they need for this particular work. Last I heard they expected the new designer to also do my duties and, again for AI to compensate for the lack of time. I tendered my resignation.
All of this to make things so that only one designer was necessary to do two kinds of work.
My issue with AI is not that it will replace jobs, it is that employers will use it to push additional duties upon the already overworked. If you have one person who, through the use of AI, can do multiple task that are not necessarily all related, then you can get away with paying them far less than what you'd pay for the other workers combined.
Eventually the last person standing will be the guy who just knows what buttons to push and what scripts/code to execute that cranks out product. Creativity, design and care will be gone and all the products will look the same.
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